Lindy Girl
How popular is Lindy?
#1,592 girl name in 2025
131 baby girls were named Lindy in the US in 2025, making it the 1592nd most popular girl name.
Lindy popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,592 for girls (▲ 333 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 131 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+111% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,810 in 2015, #2,416 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1979 (310 girls) |
| Highest rank | #586 in 1979 |
| First recorded | 1885 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Lindy counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Lindy family of names ranked #821 for girls in 2025 (#905 the year before), with 288 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Lindy | 131 | 45% |
| Lyndi | 44 | 15% |
| Lyndee | 25 | 9% |
| Lyndie | 30 | 10% |
| Lyndy | 27 | 9% |
| Lindi | 6 | 2% |
| Lindie | 11 | 4% |
| Lindee | 6 | 2% |
| Lynndi | 8 | 3% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Lindy is most popular
Babies named Lindy per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Minnesota: 0.3 per 1,000 (29 girls)
- Utah: 0.2 per 1,000 (13 girls)
- Kansas: 0.1 per 1,000 (7 girls)
- Washington: 0.1 per 1,000 (16 girls)
- Oklahoma: 0.1 per 1,000 (7 girls)
Lindy by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #1,047 |
| 1890s | 7 | #1,299 |
| 1900s | 16 | #1,792 |
| 1910s | 44 | #2,330 |
| 1920s | 84 | #1,586 |
| 1930s | 76 | #1,950 |
| 1940s | 348 | #991 |
| 1950s | 1,234 | #766 |
| 1960s | 922 | #848 |
| 1970s | 1,468 | #586 |
| 1980s | 1,777 | #682 |
| 1990s | 939 | #1,249 |
| 2000s | 798 | #2,025 |
| 2010s | 594 | #2,597 |
| 2020s | 584 | #1,592 |
Girl names about as popular as Lindy
Questions
- Is Lindy a boy or girl name?
- Lindy is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Lindy were girls.
- How popular is the name Lindy?
- 131 baby girls were named Lindy in the US in 2025, making it the 1592nd most popular girl name.
- When was Lindy most popular?
- Lindy peaked in 1979, when 310 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #586 in 1979.
- How many people are named Lindy?
- 10,672 babies have been named Lindy in the US since 1880. We estimate about 8,840 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 45.
- Where is Lindy most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Lindy was most common in Minnesota, at 0.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.